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Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music Stefan Kostka

Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music By Stefan Kostka

Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music by Stefan Kostka


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Unlike other books on this subject, this survey of 20th-century music is organized according to compositional methods and analytical techniques rather than historical movements. Emphasizing hands-on compositional and analytical experience, it covers scale formations, chords and simultaneities, melo

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Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music Summary

Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music by Stefan Kostka

A core text for undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Music Theory and Harmony, Analysis of 20th-Century Music, 20th-Century Idioms, and a supplement for courses in 20th-Century Music History. This text provides the most comprehensive analytical approach to 20th-Century Music available - from Impressionism to recent trends. It covers music from the early 1900s through such movements as Minimalism and the Neoromanticism of the 1990's, and includes chapters on rhythm, form, electronic and computer music, and the roles of chance and choice in Twentieth-Century music.

Table of Contents



1. The Twilight of the Tonal System.


2. Scale Formations in Twentieth-Century Music.


3. The Vertical Dimension: Chords and Simultaneities.


4. The Horizontal Dimension: Melody and Voice Leading.


5. Harmonic Progression and Tonality.


6. Developments in Rhythm.


7. Form in Twentieth-Century Music.


8. Imports and Allusions.


9. Nonserial Atonality.


10. Classical Serialism.


11. Timbre and Texture: Acoustic.


12. Timbre and Texture: Electronic.


13. Serialism After 1945.


14. The Roles of Chance and Choice in Twentieth-Century Music.


15. Minimalism and Neoromanticism.


Bibliography.


Index.

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CIN0139240772G
9780139240775
0139240772
Materials and Techniques of Twentieth-Century Music by Stefan Kostka
Used - Good
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Inc
19980807
328
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